The Trump Crime Family - Legal Issues

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Originally Posted by whell

No, I think it's you who have lost the ability to discern. You're more likely to criticize harshly points of view you don't happen to subscribe to, dismissing those points of view as "lies" and holding your own word view up as unassailable fact. The world doesn't work that way.

Here's an EXCELLENT piece from a former NY Times editorial page editor. He was asked for his resignation because he dared publish an op-ed piece by a Republican Senator whose opinion on how to deal with some of the civil unrest during the summer of 2020 ruffled some "liberal" feathers in his own organization.

Note that I call this an EXCELLENT piece even though the author holds views the probably don't agree with my own. He does nail what has happened to the product of the NY Times, and his observations also apply to other noteworthy publications: a culture of intolerance. As the author states:

The Times’s problem has metastasized from liberal bias to illiberal bias, from an inclination to favour one side of the national debate to an impulse to shut debate down altogether.

You suggested in an earlier post that I need to do some soul-searching. I suggest you follow your own advice after reading this.

I had already read it and largely agree with his take. I'm not a particularly fond of what has become of the NYTimes though the Times is still far better than any conservative news/opinion outlet (e.g., Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, Epoch Times, WashTimes, Just The News (Solomon's rag)) other than those launched by NeverTrumpers (The Bulwark, The Dispatch) disillusioned by the protofascist takeover of the GOP and their captive media.

None of this has any bearing on my criticism of you linking to an article by a dishonest and traitorous clown who participated in a Russia-assisted dirty tricks campaign. My criticism peaks further when you use an editorial decision and subsequent internal dissension at the NYT to imply it's as bad or worse than Solomon and his wingnut rag. Such self-criticism is something you'll never see conservative outlets employ. Instead, they double-down on their lies even after being exposed as flagrant liars.

What's truly ironic is that conservatives demand absolutely true, unbiased reporting with zero mistakes from mainstream outlets (that they mostly don't read anyway), while simultaneously demanding that conservative outlets comfort them with a security blanket of lies (as clearly shown by discovery in the Dominion case). Whassup with that, Mr. Fake News?